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Welcome Internet friend — wipe your feet and come on in! This blog is all about our adventure to try and reach $1000 in monthly recurring revenue. We hope you find it interesting — but first of all, you probably have some questions…
UPDATE: 3 months after starting this blog, we reached $1000 MRR with JournoRequests — an email service that sends you PR opportunities from Twitter.
UPDATE 2: we created Profile Hopper to help us grow JournoRequests. It generates sales/marketing leads from LinkedIn. What started off as a side project has also reached $1000 MRR. You can follow along on Open Baremetrics here, or sign up to our blog here as we attempt to grow it to $10k MRR.
Who are you guys?
We’re Ed & Harry, two software developers who met at the University of Cambridge. We didn’t do much software dev at uni, but now we’re proper nerds! Together we’ve built products featured by Apple, Product Hunt (1000+ upvotes), TechCrunch, and a bunch of other cool places.
Why are you writing this blog?
Focus! It’s our version of putting up a target on our bathroom mirror.
We ultimately want to bootstrap a profitable company, and although we’ve made some popular products previously, they are yet to make any substantial revenue. It’s time to home-in on an achievable target that would mark a giant leap forwards for us. $1000 MRR seems about right.
Oh, and we’ll be sharing all our juicy stats, insights and thoughts along the way, with the hope that other founders and makers will find them useful. In fact, if there’s ever something you’d like us to write about or a question you’d like answered, shoot an email to us at nimbletechlimited@gmail.com.
Why $1000 per month?
We want to be profitable early on so we don’t have to take investment. As a first target, $1000 feels like an achievable step in the right direction.
This is probably quite different to the way a lot of startups are thinking right now. However, running a bootstrapped company sounds like less stress and more fun than a no-revenue startup, which could be a plane-crash waiting to happen.
